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Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters - Aurora HDR Tutorial
From the course: Learning Aurora HDR 2018
Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters
- Now lets talk about color. Once you lock down tone, the exposure values, it's a good idea to tackle color and there are several different controls, we have Color, Color Toning and HSL. Let's start with the Color category, here we have global controls over color, we can bring up the overall Saturation or down, similarly, Vibrance is saturation, but a little more selectively, you'll see for example, that it's affecting the blues and greens more than the reds, so in this case, I boosted Vibrance, but toned down Saturation, that really did a nice, subtle job of bringing out some of the colors in the image. Additionally there's Color Contrast and this goes through and looks for areas, where there's minimal saturation, particularly in the sky and starts to push those more for higher contrast, be careful not to overdo it, but if you want a stylized look, this can make it easier to get nice, rich color. If we scroll down a little bit, you'll see that we also have Color Toning, here is where…
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Developing the essentials with HDR basic filter4m 36s
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Enhancing color with the Color, Color Toning, and HSL filters4m 18s
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Adding details with the HDR Structure and HDR Details Boost filters4m 51s
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Removing noise from an HDR image with the HDR denoise filter2m 25s
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Improving presence with the HDR Radiance filter2m 59s
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Enhancing skies with Top & Bottom Tuning and the Polarizing filters2m 44s
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Refining exposure with the Tone Curve and Dodge & Burn filters4m 8s
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Stylizing the image with the Glow and vignette filters4m 8s
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